Shouldn't be as enjoyable as it ultimately is.

Rating: 7/10 (26 March 2018)

There's this niggling yet unshakeable sense that 'Pacific Rim (2013)' shouldn't be as enjoyable as it ultimately is, seeing as though the dialogue (along with most acting) is eye-rollingly ham-fisted, in a corny kind of way, and the set-up itself is cringe-inducingly clichéd. Yet the picture picks itself up around half-way through and comes barrelling in to be an ultimate guilty-pleasure. The expertly rendered robot-suits battle it out in the cities and seas to usually eye-pleasing results, and it's actually a pretty fun ride even though you know it's stupid, and perhaps it even knows it itself. Not quite 'turn-your-brain-off', but definitely 'ignore-that-whiny-voice-of-cinematic-reason'. 7/10